After the Sleeklens people brought to my attention their landscape adventure actions for Photoshop I decided to take some older landscape photographs out for a spin. Mostly my photographs are realistic and lifelike (aka dull) ie not attracting many views on the internet about which I have been known to lament once in a while. Maybe less so with Sleeklens’ landscape adventure Photoshop actions.
After applying a couple of actions my landscape photographs sure look a lot more “interesting”. I have not printed anything but judging from my experience in this field I think the Sleeklensed photographs will hold up quite well. Sometimes artefacts in the file are brought out by extreme settings and the Sleeklens actions use sharpening quite a lot (which I would do only when preparing for output and not during the workflow). Also the editing is destructive, see the tutorials on their site. This is probably inevitable due to the nature of actions. By inspecting what the actions “do” (it’s still just Photoshop, not sorcery) a lot can be learned though, this is an impressive set of actions.
Peter Lik, here I come!
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Sleeklens actions applied:
– BASE Autumn Colors.
– ALL IN ONE Expand Dynamic Range (and mask added for sky only).
– ENHANCE Cool Shadows, a mask is added to paint in the shadows which I did and reduced opacity.
Sleeklens actions applied:
– ALLINONE Punchy Black and White.
– TONE Cinematic.
Sleeklens actions applied:
– EXPOSURE Brighter 70% opacity (this is just an exposure layer).
– TONE This Is Cool 30% opacity.
– ALLINONE Vivid Pastell Painting 22% opacity.
– ALLINONE Deep Cinematic.
Sleeklens actions applied:
– TONE Color Pop 23% opacity.
– SPECIALTY Dark Dreams (added mask to reduce greatly in the center).
Sleeklens actions applied:
– BASE Clarity.